Reading English Literature to improve English Language

Lesson #283: Digging for Treasure in Difficult Texts – Do English Classics Help You Learn English? (A Reflective Lesson)

📘 “We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable – not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883) For a long time I have been intending to prepare a special Lesson on Robert Louis Stevenson’s most […]

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Lesson #219: ‘Annabel Lee’: Edgar Allan Poe’s Melodious and Melodramatic Poem

‘Annabel Lee’ (1849) It was many and many a year ago,    In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know    By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought    Than to love and be loved by me. .. I was a child and she was a

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